"The glass is half-full!" "The glass is half-empty." "Half-full, no, wait, half-empty, no... could you repeat the question?" "Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!"
So GTK+ commits some Windows fashion faux pas? I don't give a crap how the application looks as long as it does what it should. GTK+ is easy to build applications with and very powerful, and that's all I care about, not whether or not it clashes with the decor.
I'll build my OWN GPS! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the GPS and the blackjack...
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Oh, never mind, since I missed checking the Post Anonymously button.
Mod me down as flamebait -- unless you think it is insightful..;)
Re:360 - A Complete And Total Disaster
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So read from other news sites that are paid to write glowing, positive reviews of the piece of turd that is the 360?
We've had power supply problems, subpar games, and graphics that have yet to exceed the worst of the last generation of game systems. How is the XBox 360 *not* a disaster?
[Since this is obviously flamebait, I'm posting as AC. -- sc]
If you wrote that "DoktorSeven is a fat smelly idiot that murders babies and eats them during his satanic rituals while listening to music he downloaded from the Internet illegally," or some other (much more sane, likely) slanderous thing...
I'd ignore you. As I should. Even if these hypothetical lies got public attention, I would not be truly harmed; they are only words, and false ones at that. The only way I would be harmed by them is if criminal charges were brought forth by the force of your words, and there would have to be proof before that could happen.
So where's the harm? Why would I need to protect myself from simple words, unless I was extremely thin-skinned person with absolutely no maturity. That's how I view people who sue others for insults.
Someone harassing someone else go far enough where it goes past simple slander and becomes criminal; I do believe (going back to the topic at hand) if this person launched a prolonged baseless campaign against the company in question and had no actual facts to back it up, and, *despite repeated findings that the person has no facts behind her* (important), continues to campaign against the company just because the person has a personal grudge against them, this person should be dealt with accordingly. But given that 1) the person apparently had truth on her side 2) from what I read it did not seem like a prolonged baseless campaign, just a simple website, this specific case did not seem like it was enough to make this woman into a criminal.
And yes, I disagree with the laws. If I believe a law is wrong, especially if it has been used against me, I'm not going to sit back and "deal with the consequences." There have been unjust laws throughout history, you know; allowing governments to suppress freedom with unjust laws isn't good.
This'll be my last reply on this; I'm sorry you disagree, but I am sure you mean well. I just feel that people should have more freedom than most people do.
Think of most blogs as the opinion page of the newspaper, not the front-page news. Most blogs just refer to the news, not report it, and offer their opinion, or wild rumors, or whatever. You really can't compare most blogs to actual journalism.
Note that I said *most* blogs before you throw counter-examples at me.
However, both are (or at least should be, in a decent, moral, and rational society) considered free speech, and thus should not be regulated, censored, or have to meet with anyone's approval. It's just sad that we have to have rulings to give those basic freedoms back to us, when they should have always been there.
"The current situation" is so ridiculously stupid that I (and many others, apparently) do not feel it necessary to provide a "reasonable alternative". How can someone who has created a website that "led to letters and kudos from various government officials for reporting alleged violations" (from TFA) -- and specifically from the (then-)environment minister -- suddenly get sued for millions from the offending company? Obviously this wasn't "slander or libel", as you keep repeating (I have found that a person that wishes to plant a half-truth or lie in the minds of someone will continually repeat that lie until it becomes truth -- see also President Bush and the words "weapons of mass destruction"), but a genuine complaint. Even if it was a bit slanderous, just because something has gone on for years doesn't make it right (re: your claim that this has gone on since "the colonial era").
And "cause and effect"? Well, this person wrote a website, you see, and it caused the company mentioned in the website to file a suit to shut her up, their desired effect. Simple, no? Or did you mean something else?
And sure, some people will be willing to defend their freedom of speech, but many others are now afraid of the "army of lawyers" corporations have, and will simply fold. And what if not everything this person said was true? Would that be enough to not prove "convincingly" that this person was not involved in your "libel and slander", even if there were still a lot of truth in what the person said? And would this be enough to shut this person up?
Perhaps you do not see the terrible abuse of power large corporations have at their disposal in today's world. Perhaps you don't see their avarice slowly eroding personal liberties, like the media companies all but eliminating personal fair use. The rose-tinted glasses of patriotism for countries being crushed under a mountain of greed has made people actually fight against their own freedom and unknowingly work for their oppressors. Maybe it has been going on since colonial days, but it's time to end it. Realizing "that's the way it's always been" is a poor argument is the first step to positive change.
A weak argument that sounds strong because of the way one chooses his words can be countered by "parroting" their argument and exposing this weakness. Apparently, you were not able to appreciate the effectiveness of this, instead attacking and insulting me by calling me a parrot and an elementary school student. Thank you for that.
And by the way, insulting someone to counter their argument is something third graders do as well.
Since you were not able to grasp the concept of my counter-argument, I shall explain it for you. America's lawsuit-happy attitude is exactly what supresses free speech these days. People are afraid to speak out because they don't want a lawsuit thrown at them. It's very effective in stopping free speech since the government can't simply repel the first amendment. It's sickening to see all the lawsuits and threats of same being thrown about to limit freedoms we should enjoy.
why would we want to make games for non-gamers? If they're non-gamers, they don't want to play games. I know it's a hard concept for gamers (and I'm one too), but there are people in the world that just do not care much for games.
Having complaints lobbed at you has always been a risk of running a business. New technology, like blogging, changes nothing. The fact is that lots of people speak their mind whether or not it is the truth, and like it or not, their is a matter of a little thing called "free speech" which you can do *nothing about*.
There is a kneejerk tendency to assume this is some poor company that could lose millions versus one person with a grudge. Maybe, maybe not. If she can convincingly argue that this "poor company" actually has a problem, then there should be people lining up to protest at this company. If she can't convince anyone, then she's a nutcase that should -- and will -- be ignored.
Publishing is publishing, whether you're the NYT or someone's cat blog. Everyone gets free speech. Anyone unprepared to deal with this freedom should move to China.
Really, both Gimp and PS are nice enough -- just have to feed the trolls sometimes. What can I say, I can't stand to see good trolls starve.:)
Personal preference, and all that. Main problem I think is that people get too used to how PS does things, and expects Gimp to behave the same. No problem, keep paying some horribly outrageous amount (or downloading an illegal copy) and enjoy. Doesn't matter to me. Just don't attack The Gimp as something terribly inadequate and inferior just because you don't use and/or understand it.
If you want to deal with the nightmare that is the Gimp GUI, more power to you. BUT, professional users prefer Photoshop. Your comment is based on an irrational hate for Adobe.
If you want to deal with an overpriced piece of software whose only difference from The Gimp is MDI vs. a few floating windows, and a few options here and there, more power to you, BUT, people who aren't elitist assholes -- people who think paying $700 for software (or pirating it) means they get superior software -- prefer The Gimp. Your comment is based on an irrational hate for open source software.
I have always loved how the old 2nd Edition D&D manuals handled this. From the introduction (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook (1995), p9):
A Note About Pronouns
The male pronoun (he, him, his) is used exclusively throughout the AD&D game rules. We hope this won't be construed by anyone to be an attempt to exclude females from the game or imply their exclusion. Centuries of use have neutered the male pronoun. In written material it is clear, concise, and familiar. Nothing else is.
Thank you. The goal of terrorists is to destroy our freedoms and way of life.
They did it. It would have been so simple to not be afraid of terrorism and go on with our lives, but no, fellow Americans, you had to be stupid enough to go along with our stupid government and be afraid. Thanks a lot.
The terrorists won. Don't let anything our idiot president says make you think differently.
You do know that public opinion can be horribly wrong, correct?
Just because a buttload of Americans (and those are some pretty big butts)* decide that it's good that their privacy and freedoms are being taken away does not make it right.
And what is worse is that people will defend this position by going to the "Everybody Does It!" argument, and ridicule those who don't agree.
Hell** in a handbasket.
* Disclaimer: I'm an American, and my butt is huge ** Disclaimer 2: I'm an atheist, and don't believe in Hell.
It will happen when the people doing the hiring start reading these rants and realizing "hey, these people have a point". Saying something is never going to happen is self-defeating.
People need to start realizing that things CAN change, and it starts with throwing away our ridiculous notion of "this is the way things are, so too bad".
Things can be however you want them to. People need to use their brains for once and quit repeating the bullshit people have told them.
Well, I like to think that I'm not a complete ass. I'm just not this insanely lovable, sociable guy who loves standing around the watercooler talking about any inane topic that comes up. I am a relatively nice person when I need to be.
I just can't compare with these people who tend to be super-sociable, hyper, etc. Generally I like to be left alone to do my work.
Basically every job requires you to become a salesman. You sell yourself on a piece of paper, then come in to close the deal. News flash, employers: I'M NOT A SALESMAN, nor am I trying to be.
I sit behind a desk in a dark corner of your offices and make stuff work. Human interaction is a very small part of the deal. And there's no salesmanship at all. So... why do job interviews and the whole stupid hiring process treat me like I should be this expert salesman?
All they'll get from this process is some snake oil salesman pretending to be a systems administrator / programmer / IT person / etc that will have no idea what he is doing, but since he's such a MAGNIFICENT "people person", they look the other way!
But when *I* screw up, Mr. Anti-Social, it's not the same.
Complete crap. And yes, I, too, am fucking bitter. Sue me.
Tell me, when you move your arms to aim a gun, can you control the speed at which you move (like an analog stick), or do your arms jerk around with all-or-nothing speed (like a mouse)?
Huh?
I don't know what kind of mouse youuse that only allows all-or-nothing speed, but mine can creep along pixel by pixel with a slow movement of the mouse, or a fast all the way across the screen movement with a flick of my wrist.
Best put down that crackpipe and learn to use a mouse, my friend.
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The Four Basic Personality Types:
"The glass is half-full!"
"The glass is half-empty."
"Half-full, no, wait, half-empty, no... could you repeat the question?"
"Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!"
(from memory, sue me if I screwed it up)
and *is* very powerful... damn disappearing words. :)
So GTK+ commits some Windows fashion faux pas? I don't give a crap how the application looks as long as it does what it should. GTK+ is easy to build applications with and very powerful, and that's all I care about, not whether or not it clashes with the decor.
I'll build my OWN GPS! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the GPS and the blackjack...
Oh, never mind, since I missed checking the Post Anonymously button.
;)
Mod me down as flamebait -- unless you think it is insightful..
So read from other news sites that are paid to write glowing, positive reviews of the piece of turd that is the 360?
We've had power supply problems, subpar games, and graphics that have yet to exceed the worst of the last generation of game systems. How is the XBox 360 *not* a disaster?
[Since this is obviously flamebait, I'm posting as AC. -- sc]
Two words: Noscript Plugin.
If you wrote that "DoktorSeven is a fat smelly idiot that murders babies and eats them during his satanic rituals while listening to music he downloaded from the Internet illegally," or some other (much more sane, likely) slanderous thing...
I'd ignore you. As I should. Even if these hypothetical lies got public attention, I would not be truly harmed; they are only words, and false ones at that. The only way I would be harmed by them is if criminal charges were brought forth by the force of your words, and there would have to be proof before that could happen.
So where's the harm? Why would I need to protect myself from simple words, unless I was extremely thin-skinned person with absolutely no maturity. That's how I view people who sue others for insults.
Someone harassing someone else go far enough where it goes past simple slander and becomes criminal; I do believe (going back to the topic at hand) if this person launched a prolonged baseless campaign against the company in question and had no actual facts to back it up, and, *despite repeated findings that the person has no facts behind her* (important), continues to campaign against the company just because the person has a personal grudge against them, this person should be dealt with accordingly. But given that 1) the person apparently had truth on her side 2) from what I read it did not seem like a prolonged baseless campaign, just a simple website, this specific case did not seem like it was enough to make this woman into a criminal.
And yes, I disagree with the laws. If I believe a law is wrong, especially if it has been used against me, I'm not going to sit back and "deal with the consequences." There have been unjust laws throughout history, you know; allowing governments to suppress freedom with unjust laws isn't good.
This'll be my last reply on this; I'm sorry you disagree, but I am sure you mean well. I just feel that people should have more freedom than most people do.
Think of most blogs as the opinion page of the newspaper, not the front-page news. Most blogs just refer to the news, not report it, and offer their opinion, or wild rumors, or whatever. You really can't compare most blogs to actual journalism.
Note that I said *most* blogs before you throw counter-examples at me.
However, both are (or at least should be, in a decent, moral, and rational society) considered free speech, and thus should not be regulated, censored, or have to meet with anyone's approval. It's just sad that we have to have rulings to give those basic freedoms back to us, when they should have always been there.
"The current situation" is so ridiculously stupid that I (and many others, apparently) do not feel it necessary to provide a "reasonable alternative". How can someone who has created a website that "led to letters and kudos from various government officials for reporting alleged violations" (from TFA) -- and specifically from the (then-)environment minister -- suddenly get sued for millions from the offending company? Obviously this wasn't "slander or libel", as you keep repeating (I have found that a person that wishes to plant a half-truth or lie in the minds of someone will continually repeat that lie until it becomes truth -- see also President Bush and the words "weapons of mass destruction"), but a genuine complaint. Even if it was a bit slanderous, just because something has gone on for years doesn't make it right (re: your claim that this has gone on since "the colonial era").
And "cause and effect"? Well, this person wrote a website, you see, and it caused the company mentioned in the website to file a suit to shut her up, their desired effect. Simple, no? Or did you mean something else?
And sure, some people will be willing to defend their freedom of speech, but many others are now afraid of the "army of lawyers" corporations have, and will simply fold. And what if not everything this person said was true? Would that be enough to not prove "convincingly" that this person was not involved in your "libel and slander", even if there were still a lot of truth in what the person said? And would this be enough to shut this person up?
Perhaps you do not see the terrible abuse of power large corporations have at their disposal in today's world. Perhaps you don't see their avarice slowly eroding personal liberties, like the media companies all but eliminating personal fair use. The rose-tinted glasses of patriotism for countries being crushed under a mountain of greed has made people actually fight against their own freedom and unknowingly work for their oppressors. Maybe it has been going on since colonial days, but it's time to end it. Realizing "that's the way it's always been" is a poor argument is the first step to positive change.
A weak argument that sounds strong because of the way one chooses his words can be countered by "parroting" their argument and exposing this weakness. Apparently, you were not able to appreciate the effectiveness of this, instead attacking and insulting me by calling me a parrot and an elementary school student. Thank you for that.
And by the way, insulting someone to counter their argument is something third graders do as well.
Since you were not able to grasp the concept of my counter-argument, I shall explain it for you. America's lawsuit-happy attitude is exactly what supresses free speech these days. People are afraid to speak out because they don't want a lawsuit thrown at them. It's very effective in stopping free speech since the government can't simply repel the first amendment. It's sickening to see all the lawsuits and threats of same being thrown about to limit freedoms we should enjoy.
why would we want to make games for non-gamers? If they're non-gamers, they don't want to play games. I know it's a hard concept for gamers (and I'm one too), but there are people in the world that just do not care much for games.
Screw the non-gamers, and make games for gamers.
Having complaints lobbed at you has always been a risk of running a business. New technology, like blogging, changes nothing. The fact is that lots of people speak their mind whether or not it is the truth, and like it or not, their is a matter of a little thing called "free speech" which you can do *nothing about*.
There is a kneejerk tendency to assume this is some poor company that could lose millions versus one person with a grudge. Maybe, maybe not. If she can convincingly argue that this "poor company" actually has a problem, then there should be people lining up to protest at this company. If she can't convince anyone, then she's a nutcase that should -- and will -- be ignored.
Publishing is publishing, whether you're the NYT or someone's cat blog. Everyone gets free speech. Anyone unprepared to deal with this freedom should move to China.
Really, both Gimp and PS are nice enough -- just have to feed the trolls sometimes. What can I say, I can't stand to see good trolls starve. :)
Personal preference, and all that. Main problem I think is that people get too used to how PS does things, and expects Gimp to behave the same. No problem, keep paying some horribly outrageous amount (or downloading an illegal copy) and enjoy. Doesn't matter to me. Just don't attack The Gimp as something terribly inadequate and inferior just because you don't use and/or understand it.
If you want to deal with the nightmare that is the Gimp GUI, more power to you. BUT, professional users prefer Photoshop. Your comment is based on an irrational hate for Adobe.
If you want to deal with an overpriced piece of software whose only difference from The Gimp is MDI vs. a few floating windows, and a few options here and there, more power to you, BUT, people who aren't elitist assholes -- people who think paying $700 for software (or pirating it) means they get superior software -- prefer The Gimp. Your comment is based on an irrational hate for open source software.
Solitaire II and Minesweeper: The Revenge!!!
Exclusively for MS Vista!
I have always loved how the old 2nd Edition D&D manuals handled this. From the introduction (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook (1995), p9):
A Note About Pronouns
The male pronoun (he, him, his) is used exclusively throughout the AD&D game rules. We hope this won't be construed by anyone to be an attempt to exclude females from the game or imply their exclusion. Centuries of use have neutered the male pronoun. In written material it is clear, concise, and familiar. Nothing else is.
offer llitigation protection for Llinux in Llondon?
Thank you. The goal of terrorists is to destroy our freedoms and way of life.
They did it. It would have been so simple to not be afraid of terrorism and go on with our lives, but no, fellow Americans, you had to be stupid enough to go along with our stupid government and be afraid. Thanks a lot.
The terrorists won. Don't let anything our idiot president says make you think differently.
You do know that public opinion can be horribly wrong, correct?
Just because a buttload of Americans (and those are some pretty big butts)* decide that it's good that their privacy and freedoms are being taken away does not make it right.
And what is worse is that people will defend this position by going to the "Everybody Does It!" argument, and ridicule those who don't agree.
Hell** in a handbasket.
* Disclaimer: I'm an American, and my butt is huge
** Disclaimer 2: I'm an atheist, and don't believe in Hell.
It will happen when the people doing the hiring start reading these rants and realizing "hey, these people have a point". Saying something is never going to happen is self-defeating.
People need to start realizing that things CAN change, and it starts with throwing away our ridiculous notion of "this is the way things are, so too bad".
Things can be however you want them to. People need to use their brains for once and quit repeating the bullshit people have told them.
Well, I like to think that I'm not a complete ass. I'm just not this insanely lovable, sociable guy who loves standing around the watercooler talking about any inane topic that comes up. I am a relatively nice person when I need to be.
I just can't compare with these people who tend to be super-sociable, hyper, etc. Generally I like to be left alone to do my work.
Furthering the off-topic rant, you're right.
Basically every job requires you to become a salesman. You sell yourself on a piece of paper, then come in to close the deal. News flash, employers: I'M NOT A SALESMAN, nor am I trying to be.
I sit behind a desk in a dark corner of your offices and make stuff work. Human interaction is a very small part of the deal. And there's no salesmanship at all. So... why do job interviews and the whole stupid hiring process treat me like I should be this expert salesman?
All they'll get from this process is some snake oil salesman pretending to be a systems administrator / programmer / IT person / etc that will have no idea what he is doing, but since he's such a MAGNIFICENT "people person", they look the other way!
But when *I* screw up, Mr. Anti-Social, it's not the same.
Complete crap. And yes, I, too, am fucking bitter. Sue me.
Tell me, when you move your arms to aim a gun, can you control the speed at which you move (like an analog stick), or do your arms jerk around with all-or-nothing speed (like a mouse)?
Huh?
I don't know what kind of mouse youuse that only allows all-or-nothing speed, but mine can creep along pixel by pixel with a slow movement of the mouse, or a fast all the way across the screen movement with a flick of my wrist.
Best put down that crackpipe and learn to use a mouse, my friend.